When we conduct research, we’re searching for answers that matter. Who produces the research we rely on? Who determines what is important to research, what topics deserve to be researched, and who researches it? This crucial roundtable discussion will address the fraught relationship between indigenous knowledge and scholars and the academic and cultural institutions that …

Keith Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he previously served as Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of History. The current president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, his research straddles history and health …